2MX4

NMR structure of Phosphorylated 4E-BP2


Experimental Data Snapshot

  • Method: SOLUTION NMR
  • Conformers Calculated: 20359 
  • Conformers Submitted: 20 
  • Selection Criteria: structures with the lowest energy 

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Literature

Folding of an intrinsically disordered protein by phosphorylation as a regulatory switch.

Bah, A.Vernon, R.M.Siddiqui, Z.Krzeminski, M.Muhandiram, R.Zhao, C.Sonenberg, N.Kay, L.E.Forman-Kay, J.D.

(2015) Nature 519: 106-109

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13999
  • Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
    2MX4

  • PubMed Abstract: 

    Intrinsically disordered proteins play important roles in cell signalling, transcription, translation and cell cycle regulation. Although they lack stable tertiary structure, many intrinsically disordered proteins undergo disorder-to-order transitions upon binding to partners. Similarly, several folded proteins use regulated order-to-disorder transitions to mediate biological function. In principle, the function of intrinsically disordered proteins may be controlled by post-translational modifications that lead to structural changes such as folding, although this has not been observed. Here we show that multisite phosphorylation induces folding of the intrinsically disordered 4E-BP2, the major neural isoform of the family of three mammalian proteins that bind eIF4E and suppress cap-dependent translation initiation. In its non-phosphorylated state, 4E-BP2 interacts tightly with eIF4E using both a canonical YXXXXLΦ motif (starting at Y54) that undergoes a disorder-to-helix transition upon binding and a dynamic secondary binding site. We demonstrate that phosphorylation at T37 and T46 induces folding of residues P18-R62 of 4E-BP2 into a four-stranded β-domain that sequesters the helical YXXXXLΦ motif into a partly buried β-strand, blocking its accessibility to eIF4E. The folded state of pT37pT46 4E-BP2 is weakly stable, decreasing affinity by 100-fold and leading to an order-to-disorder transition upon binding to eIF4E, whereas fully phosphorylated 4E-BP2 is more stable, decreasing affinity by a factor of approximately 4,000. These results highlight stabilization of a phosphorylation-induced fold as the essential mechanism for phospho-regulation of the 4E-BP:eIF4E interaction and exemplify a new mode of biological regulation mediated by intrinsically disordered proteins.


  • Organizational Affiliation

    1] Molecular Structure and Function Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada [2] Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada.


Macromolecules
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Entity ID: 1
MoleculeChains Sequence LengthOrganismDetailsImage
Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E-binding protein 245Homo sapiensMutation(s): 0 
Gene Names: EIF4EBP2
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Go to UniProtKB:  Q13542
PHAROS:  Q13542
GTEx:  ENSG00000148730 
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UniProt GroupQ13542
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  • Reference Sequence
Small Molecules
Modified Residues  1 Unique
IDChains TypeFormula2D DiagramParent
TPO
Query on TPO
A
L-PEPTIDE LINKINGC4 H10 N O6 PTHR
Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

  • Method: SOLUTION NMR
  • Conformers Calculated: 20359 
  • Conformers Submitted: 20 
  • Selection Criteria: structures with the lowest energy 

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  • Version 1.0: 2015-01-07
    Type: Initial release
  • Version 1.1: 2015-03-18
    Changes: Database references